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The Environment Agency said virile crayfish Orconectes virilis, which are non-native, prey on native wildlife and spread crayfish plague, a disease deadly to native white clawed crayfish.
Crayfish invasion of England's waterways tracked by radio 2011
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And the Sag and Bag of the pen is elevated to badges of manhood and warrior status alongside the toga virilis (Roman manhood garb), war paint or circumcised penises (the Mandika of Kunka Kinte fame).
Cultural and Personal Damage Steven Barnes 2009
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At last the Emperor Theodosius punished it with fire as a profanation, because sacro-sanctum esse debetur hospitium virilis animæ.
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The last rags of the boyish conscience were torn away, and he was invested with the toga virilis of journalism.
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Si quis nuptam stuprarit, virga virilis ei praeciditur; si mulier, nasus et auricula praecidatur.
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Si in sinistra, ita quod aliquantulum versus dextram, mulier virilis.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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During this period, Mr. Clive assumed the toga virilis, and beheld with inexpressible satisfaction the first growth of those mustachios which have since given him such a marked appearance.
The Newcomes 2006
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I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense; that the classics contained everything that was either necessary, useful, or ornamental to men; and I was not without thoughts of wearing the toga virilis of the
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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There, protected by "holy ties of intimacy," even the weakest debater could don the "toga virilis."
Student Life and Learning James L. Leloudis 2004
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Grauissimum singuli sustinuimus ictum per corporis loca diuersa, vnus in facie, alius in pectore, ad costas, in dorso, vel ad humerum, et mansit cuique signum percussuræ nigerrimum, ad formam virilis manus humanæ:
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